In A Room of One"s Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One"s Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women"s creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In Three Guineas (1938), however, Woolf argues that women"s historical exclusion offers them the chance to form a political and cultural identity which could challenge the drive towards fascism and war.